My self portrait inspired by David Hockney

Following a trip to the Ferrer’s Centre (Staunton Harold, Leicestershire), I was inspired by some of the artwork I saw in the Ferrer’s Gallery to create a mixed media piece of art.

I decided to try to blend my love of both photography and watercolour. Not a natural blend, this presented several challenges.

Firstly, It Was trial and error to find how much I could actually put on the paper without it looking to plain but not to busy.

Secondly, I struggled to find colours that compliment each other and don't look a mess, I didn't fully succeed but it looked better than it did before I reset it. 

Also I printed of lots of photos but only found a couple of them useful as I found myself trying  to get as many photos as possible but I would make it look to busy so removed most of them.

I tried smaller copies so I could see the colour combination and what compliments what and where I should put each colour and how much of it. All together I made about 4 different pieces and chose the one I liked best.

I like my final piece but there is more than one thing that I would change if I did It again

I am unhappy with the photos I chose to use and I would chose differently but overall it turned out better than i had hoped so I am happy with my work.